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‘A big political football.’ That’s Politico’s assessment of Gov. Pritzker’s stay-home directive in the COVID-19 pandemic now that a Downstate circuit court judge has granted a state representative’s request for a restraining order on grounds the order infringes on (clarifying) that one lawmaker’s civil rights.■ A Jasper County Board member insists “socialists, liberals and communists” in the news business have overblown the mortality risk: “There has been some coronavirus here, but they was dying anyway.”